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autophagosome

noun

  1. A double-membrane-bounded compartment that engulfs endogenous cellular material as well as invading microorganisms to target them to the lytic vacuole/lysosome for degradation as part of macroautophagy.
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English auto- English phago- Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English phagosome English autophagosome From auto- + phagosome.

  1. A phagosome in which part of a cell's own cytoplasm is digested